Flow of Earth’s upper mantle may include intermittent wild fluctuations in plastic strain rate of increasing frequency with depth, according to results of nanoindentation experiments on olivine crysta...

Dr Carrie Soderman – who is investigating rare earth elements – says she took any opportunity she could to stay on top of her routine during downtime on recent research trips in Greenland.

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how some modern birds and fish

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

Some giant magnetofossils may have acted as magnetoreceptors in motile animals, according to three-dimensional vector tomography of a spearhead giant magnetofossil which identifies a magnetic structur...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world’s most iconic sites.

We are delighted to celebrate COMET Scientists Professor Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge) and Professor David Pyle (University of Oxford), who are amongst the outstanding and distinguished grou...

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Sea salt data from an ice core record show that Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial, the last period of enhanced and sustained global warmth about 125,000 years ago.

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and allowed life to form. At the core of these questions i...

The Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has successfully drilled a 2800-metre-long ice core consisting of ice which is over 1.2 million years old.

We use high frequency sampling to observe rapid changes in lava composition during the 183 day 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption The eruption was sourced from 12 to 15 km depth, corresponding to the l...